Robert Coleman Trussell: News

I know it seems like I've been saying this for years, but my second album really is done. The pressing should take a couple of weeks.

"Car Talk," the national NPR show with Tom and Ray Magliozzi, also known as Click and Clack, dispensing jokes and car advice, featured "Go Go Go" in the second half of its Sept. 1 broadcast. Check it out at cartalk.com by clicking on "Our Lousy Radio Show," then "Listen to Car Talk" and finally "Browse."

Alt.Country Cooking cohost Johanna J. Bodde interviewed Trussell: http://insurgentcountry.net/Robert-Coleman-Trussel-talks-about-Texas-Gothic.htm

Texas Gothic review is in Dutch (see press for a translation) but interview with Trussell is in English:
http://hanx.net/trussell2.htm

James McMurtry touches my head more than my heart. I admire his music more than it turns me on.  Inward looking, nasal sounding, Robert Coleman Trussell is very much in the vein of McMurtry.  His boots are gray from the Texas soil and you can also hear the spirit of Townes van Zandt and bypassed towns.  It reports with innocence.

Robert Coleman Trussell plays guitar, harmonica and sings.  Kelly Werts adds organ, violin, and enthusiasm.  Is Texas Gothic a delayed debut? It seems to be.  The web site that has nothing but the photo speaks volumes.  He's like 40 going on 50 by way of 20, but then again, maybe not - who knows?  The songs are rural and a little depressing - men who live in the background and seldom speak their minds and bent to the breaking point.  Billy Got Bad - the bottle and a pistol, and a woman who sells herself as The Queen of Pain.  Rich and poor are depicted in Hell Across the Tracks.  Since We Live In Heaven We Don't Need To Care.

The songs are kind of like second hand cars.  Here and there a scratch or a dent, but with a certain familiarity.  Robert Coleman Trussell writes his songs a bit too much alike - no exclamation points or colons.  There are 15 of them, and the songs are to some extent undermined by their barrenness.  In some I hear the young Dylan, but that may not be a good thing for Texas Gothic.  In Robert Coleman Trussell's voice there is a silence that the afternoon sun overcomes and seems to leave hiding in the small town.  

In any case, the song about the Spanish girls makes the CD. --- Wim Boluijt, HANX.NET

"The more you have faith and continue to listen, the more you start to enjoy the voice of Trussell, and you realize it's the one you wish you were born with." Kelly Maxwell, Blues Matters (see press page) www.bluesmatters.com

DJ Freddy Celis of Belgium played "Mama Don't You Know" on his radio show and reviewed Texas Gothic on the Rootstime website. "A terrible good rootsplaat," says the free translation of Dutch to English. (To read the translation of the translation and the rest of the review, see press.) www.rootstime.be

Benny Metten on European site Ctrl. Alt. Country: "...a must-have for fans of James McMurtry..." (see press page) www.ctrlaltcountry.be

Village Records put Texas Gothic in their catalog and owner Corky Carrel wrote a review for their November 2005 mailer: "...over the course of 15 songs he paints a picture of life in those dusty towns that your parents would never stop at unless they were out of gas..." (see press page) www.villagerecords.com

Hans Hoogeveen, host of Under the Tree on Radio Rijnwoude in the Netherlands, put Texas Gothic on his January 2006 top five list, which was submitted to the Euro Americana chart.

Lori, co-host of Sunday Sagebrush Serenade on KRCL in Salt Lake City, put Texas Gothic on her list of best folk releases of 2005.

Johanna Bodde, co-host of Alt. Country Cooking on Radio Winschoten in the Netherlands, added Texas Gothic to her list of top five albums of January 2006.

Hans Hanegraaf, host of Radio MILO's American Music in Belgium, included Texas Gothic to his list of recommended albums of 2005.

Phantom Tollbooth. (Still trying to figure that one out.)

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